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Through new technologies, events that occur around the whole world can become news in the Netherlands. The fact that these stories are about events that occurred in foreign countries might have an effect on the news values that were used to select the story and the frame that was used to cover the story. 30 articles from each type of news (domestic, foreign, and domestic in foreign) were analyzed on frames and news values. Findings show that the type of news may indeed be of influence on the news values, as proximity was most often found in foreign and domestic in foreign news. Also, news frames might be influenced by the type of news, as the human interest frame was most often found in the domestic in foreign type news and the responsibility frame most often in domestic news. Beginning journalists might use this information in their learning process, to learn what news values to select a story on and what frames to use for an article. The news audience could use this knowledge to understand how the news is selected and portrayed by journalists.